The "Workshop on Recent Advances in Distributed Video Coding" (free registration at http://www.discoverdvc.org/Workshop.html) will be organized in conjunction with the 26th Picture Coding Symposium (PCS'2007) - http://www.pcs2007.org - to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, next November 2007. ------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Recent Advances in Distributed Video Coding 6 November 2007, Lisbon - Portugal http://www.discoverdvc.org/Workshop.html Picture Coding Symposium - PCS'2007 7-9 November 2007, Lisbon - Portugal Paper submission deadline: 10 June 2007 http://www.pcs2007.org ------------------------------------------------------- DISCOVER WORKSHOP - "Recent Advances in Distributed Video Coding" Date: 6 November 2007 Venue: Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal (together with PCS'2007) Programme 8:30 Welcome and Presentation of the DISCOVER Project Luis Torres, UPC, Spain, on behalf of the DISCOVER project. Session I: Distributed Source Coding Session chair: Fernando Pereira, IST, Portugal. 8:50 Distributed Source Coding: An Overview Speaker: Zixiang Xiong, Texas A&M University, USA. 9:30 Distributed Joint Source-Channel Coding Speaker: Javier Garcia-Frias, University of Delaware, USA. 10:00 Distributed Source Coding with Unsupervised Statistical Learning Speaker: David Varodayan, Stanford University, USA. Coffee Break (10:30– 10:50) 10:50 On Source and Channel Codes for Distributed Source Coding Speaker: Christine Guillemot, INRIA, France, on behalf of the DISCOVER project. 11:20 Distributed Source Coding for Secure Fingerprint Biometrics Speaker: Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, MERL, USA. Session II: Distributed Monoview Video Coding Session chair: Joern Osterman, University of Hannover, Germany 11:50 Side Information and the Correlation Channel in DVC Speaker: Inald Lagendijk, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. 12:20 DISCOVER Monoview Video Codec Speaker: Fernando Pereira, IST, Portugal, on behalf of the DISCOVER project. Lunch Break (12:50-14:30) 14:30 Error Resilience Assessment of the DISCOVER Codec Speaker: Riccardo Leonardi, University of Brescia, Italy, on behalf of the DISCOVER project. 15:00 Distributed Video Coding Applications for Scalable and Flexible Decoding Speaker: Ngai-Man Cheung, Antonio Ortega, University of Southern California, USA. 15:30 Distributed Video Coding: A Technique or a Toolbox? Speaker: Edward Delp, Purdue University, USA. Coffee Break (16:00– 16:20) Session III: Distributed Multiview Video Coding Session chair: Luis Torres, UPC, Spain 16:20 Distributed Visual Information Processing in Camera Sensor Networks Speaker: Pier Luigi Dragotti, Imperial College, UK. 16:50 A Geometrical Framework for Distributed Coding of Multiview Images Speaker: Ivana Tosic and Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland. 17:20 Fusion and DISCOVER Multiview Approach Speaker: Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland, on behalf of the DISCOVER project. 17.50 End of the workshop